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faster brackets?

Faster brackets and faster overview with faster UI on top?

My god, my...god.

As a software developer, I'm actually interested in any gory details you could offer on how you improved things in the UI. EvE's UI shows a lot of data. Any fun war stories you can tell?

Awesome!

It's simple code reuse - because Brackets use exactly the same methods and procedures as the Overview, by making Overview methods and procedures faster it makes Brackets faster too.

That said, it's never unwise keep backups - although it's usually when they DON'T say anything worrying that you need to be concerned.

/me looks at that cluttered CCP Overview

"You gonna finish those Estamel spawns?"

edit - I SEE WAT YOU DID THAR - YOU SNEAKED MONOCLES INTO A DEV BLOG POAST

When the overview locks on mouse-over does that mean it doesn't update or that it doesn't resort? The important difference is that if it doesn't refresh, tactics such as priming weapons to insta-lock and point a decloaking ship will be slightly more difficult if the overview doesn't add the ship to the overview. If it only doesn't resort, then it merely appears at the bottom of the list until the cursor moves.

Team Gridlock and Slow Code go together like Beer and Sodastreams.

Thanks a ton; your hard work is always appreciated and affects all of us, from the newbiest of newbs to the most bitter of the bittervets. <3

leave it to CCP to fit lasers on a maelstrom

Wait, you mean your UI doesn't look like this most of the time? What game are you playing?

I think I like the overview change. Sometimes you don't want to lock stuff, you just want to select something from a busy overview. Two use cases immediately come to my mind:
1) Warping off from Jita 4-4 undock to your destination stargate.
2) Assigning tags to many targets in PvE.
Both are made an order of magnitude simpler by a still overview, and can't be done while holding the CTRL key.

However I would have made it a toggle in the options.
[x] Freeze overview when hovering the cursor over it
[ ] Freeze overview when a key is held [Configure key]

Nice to hear about these improvements. But please please don't focus too much on performance if you have a client team there already. There's so much (plus so much more) to be done in usability aspects. Better representing icons, window uniformity, visual window seperability, overview USABILITY (changing the settings is as counter-intutive, time-consuming and unnecessarily side-effect-loaded as it can get, while we're at it) to start with and so much more.